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Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.

As much as everyone wants to downplay racism, it exists. There's a great mistrust among some African-Americans of white people.

I have been a conspirator for so long that I mistrust all around me.

It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.

I distrust anything that you don't hear.

I sweat. If anything comes easy to me I mistrust it.

Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.

When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even when logic indicates that disarmament would not affect military security at all.

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

The state has, in order to control us, introduced division into our thinking, so that we come to distrust others and look to the state for protection.

Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.

Having been given that public trust, we have a responsibility to share with the public.

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.

Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.

Preemption is the right of any nation in order to preserve its National Security; however, preemptive war is a tactic, not a strategy. When used as a strategy preemption dilutes diplomacy, creates an atmosphere of distrust, and promotes regional instability.

While these attitudes are more visible when direct- ed at government, there is ample evidence that many working people distrust their own union as much as they do the corporation they work for.